Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-10

And so great majority of the farmers
are poor men, they of all others are the
greatest sufferers from its evil and perni-
cious effects. Then we repeat that it is
just as we expected that they are taking
such decided stand on the side of prohi-
bition.
That infamous, slanderous circular
issued by the Anheuser Busch reWing
Association was direct insult to every
farmer, and more especially to the cOlored
farmers, and we predicted that the circu-
lar would bear valuable fruit in this con-
test, for like boomerang here it recoiled
on it's authors and is doing wonders to-
ward their defeat. In three DAYS we hav .
noted no less than fourteen county ALL:
ances that have in council assembled
openly, boldly and MOLLY declared for
the prohibition amendment. The good
work should move on until every
J county alliance in the state have az
rayed themselves against the slanderers of
their preachers, their wives, mothers and
| daughters. They have intimated that the
rural population must be brought up and
| then guarded at the polls to see that the y
vote as they are paid to vote. Then we
say to our Alliance friends, keep the ball
moving, and on the day of election show
to the great moguls of the mash tub that
the farmers of the great state Of Texas
are not of that class that can be herded
ct the polls and voted like herd of cat
tie. Hurrah! for the Farmers Alliance.
i Overton Sharp Shooter.
J The True Blue executive committee, at
meeting held in Dallas after adjourn
ment Of the convention, passed resolu-
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newspaper to defend the principles of free
| government" one should be established
/ by those who favor "true Jeffersonian
principles" The language of the True
Blues tends to mystify the public mind.
ali newspapers in this country defend the
principles of free government-in fact,
the press is the bulwark of American
| liberty. Editors, however, have way of
thinking for themselves, which does not
always please those who come in for
their independent opposition.-TW Waco
Day.
The status of the Texas press on the
prohibition amendment is matter of free
discussion and of much variety of opin-
ion. The summary of q contemporary
places the number of newspapers in the
state favoring prohibition at $50; op-
posed, 90; neutral, Z. A peculiarly of
the analysis is that while most Of the
leading dailies oppose the adoption of the
amendment, fully three-fourths of the
weekly papers favor if, and that in North
Texas the press of some of the town and
counties are unit on prohibition, while
in some Of the South Texas communities
the unanimitY is the other way. Judging
from the expression of the papers it
would appear that the vote Of one section
of the state will be very largely balanced
by that of the other. In word it appears
that North Texas is in favor of prohibi-
ton, while South Texas is not Gaines
vile Register.
To Governor Ross: Quarantine the
female lecturers San Antonio Express.
Yes, that is in substance, part of the
Anheuser- Busch plan of conducting the
campaign Cuero Star.
IftsX payers vote for prohibition it is
Just as well that they know all the con-
sequences Of their act. F
Aside from the moral purpose of PRO-
hibitory amendment, it's advocates FREE
quently maintain that it will resultaip a
great reduction of taxation, inasfnnch
they allege the saloons are the chief
sources of crime, and that crime is ede
of the chief causes of taxation. .RBro-
nibition would really prohibit and if the
weak and depraved could find no masps
of intoxication, there might be some
force in this claim. But it is quite as
easy to get whisky in drug store, as in
a saloon.
Even in the improbable, nay, impos-
sible, event of the abolition of the sa-
looms, 1t is, also, quite as easy to get
drunk for "medicinal and scientific pur-
poses" as for the ordinary purposes, and
to many it offers strong temptation.
But, however this may be, one thing is
certain, the large revenues which the
cities and towns derive from the liquor
tax will be lost, and an equiValsntamount
will have to be spread upon the assess
ment rolls against the farms, houses,
residences and business houses of the tax
payers of Texas. Whatever differences
of opinion may exist regarding other
phases of prohibition there can be no
differences IN this subject. The
enormous sum of over one million dollars
will have to be made up from other
sources, and twist it as you may. it
means so much added to the already too
great burdens of the producing class, who
in the last resort pay all the taxes.
There is, in short, no financial compen-
sation for the loss of the liquor tax, and
it would be well for every voter and prop
erty holder to remember this fact when
he is casting his ballot on the amendment.
| GCOrsicana Courier.
~
The third party prohioitionists polled
$50, 900 votes in the last presidential cleo
ton, and $780, 900 last year They are Or
ganized in thirty-eight states, and hold
the balance of power in twelve. They
have an able organ, the Voice of New
York, and are under able and skillful
leaders The Galveston News fears they
will be q thorn in the side of the Demo
cratic party of Texas in the future. We
beg to inform the News that there is Just
one way in which this can be prevented.
It is not by defeating the amendments
that would at once push the third party
well toward the front. But it can be pre-
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